Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
School is a foretaste of life.
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
I spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues. All this crud, and then it didn't happen. There's a lot of time-wasting stuff that happens in life with movies.
I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.